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"No Fascists Allowed!" Says Trans Lesbian Python Dev
Gatekeeping. Discrimination. Whatever you call it, the Leftist Activists within Tech have a message for anyone who disagrees with them: "You are not welcome here!"
Cloudflare Rewrote Their Core in Rust, Then Half of the Internet Went Down
53 days after Cloudflare announced that their service was now "more secure" because they had ported it to Rust... an error in their Rust code caused a massive outage.
"I am one of those 'woke communists' you worry about," says Linux founder, Linus Torvalds. Plus: Why Free and Open Source Software is neither Socialist nor Communist.
Ads are filling the entirety of the Web -- websites, podcasts, YouTube videos, etc. -- at an increasing rate. Prices for those ad placements are plummeting. Consumers are desperate to use ad-blockers to make the web palatable. Google (and others) are desperate to break and block ad-blockers. All of which results in... more ads and lower pay for creators.
It's a fascinatingly annoying cycle. And there's only one viable way out of it.
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I wish I had taken a screenshot of this as it was rather comical. Yesterday, doing a Google search for "mackie onyx24 24-channel mixer phantom power", the Gemini results tried to tell me that it supplies phantom power via the SD Card slot and USB-B port (which makes zero sense at all).
Then, when searching about an issue we are having with a specific model of LASER projector, Gemini was telling me about how to troubleshoot BULB issues with that particular model and how a known issue with bulbs could be behind the particular issue I am having... a model that has a LASER and not a BULB.
Really, quite comical, and quite illustrative of the limitations of AI technology in certain use cases. (Things like Notebook LM where it is drawing from specific source material: absolutely brilliant; things like the summaries in search results... rather hit or miss, although in fairness it does seem to be doing more hitting now than even a few months back).
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